Mix / Misha Mengelberg, Misha Mengelberg (piano)

Solo piano performances opgenomen in Frascati, Amsterdam, op 10 april 1994 en het Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag op 28 mei 1994. "The pianist, like Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols (the two great jazz pianist/composers he most admires and frequently covers), has little time for virtuosity for its own sake, preferring instead to let the music follow its own path. If that leads to a dead end, so be it -- Mengelberg, whose roots in Fluxus and Dada go as deep as they do into jazz (he once recorded an album with his pet parrot), is perfectly happy to accept boredom and failure. Yet, for all its twists and turns, the music neither fails nor gets boring. To quote a memorable phrase from Art Lange's liner notes to another Mengelberg album, Two Days in Chicago, "you can hear him listening as he works." And what a pleasure it is". (Dan Warburton, Allmusic).